The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-01-26
THE DoINcs OF WOMEN.
What ID Costs 90 Dress in the Fashions
I'm New York.

What ID Costs 90 Dress In the Fashions
in New Work.
In recent letter upon the aristocracy of
England, writer said that the English
women would be surprised to know that the
Americans, whose taste in dress is SO greatly
admired over there, pay as high as $40 or
EOS for bonnet. That statement aroused
the curiosity Of many feminine Sun readers.
Who pays 800 or $l25 for bonnet?
They did not know any one who did, and
yet it might be true. But 1t seems it is not
true. The most fashionable milliner in
New York says SO. She gets more for hats
and bonnets than any one else in town, so
hat her word on the subject is final.
:" It is absurd" she said. we could
easily make hats and bonnets that would be
worth that price, but no one would buy
hem. Do you know how much the most
fashionable and wealthy ladies in town
want to get their bonnets for? Twenty five
dollars. We get 1886 and sometimes $40 for
a bonnet, but those prices are mainly for
imported ones.
when a woman pays 1856 or $40 for a
bonnet she expects to get everything-ths
whole store. She pretends she can get the
same thing for less money in Sixth avenue,
when even q man can see the difference be-
tween bonnets here and bonnets there.
What makes the cost? Oh, the quality of
the velvet, the expensive trimmings and
feathers. Now, here's a love from Paris
holding up jaunty bonnet of chocolate
colored plush trimmed with a row of heavy
Jet beads and with half of the russet-red
tail feathers of bird of Paradise).
I've refused 1886 for it. 1t is as good and
As snowy and as expensive as any woman
on the continent has or can get. And it is
too expensive for most of them. They don't
like to go above $25."
81 zee all your hats and bonnets are
trimmed with feathers. Don't you feel the
sffect OF the Audubon movement for the
protection of birds? thought the ladies
we're going to get along without causing
the slaughter of birds for their adornment.
edo feel the movement? Guess / do.
very hat will be put aside by half dozen
women in succession because 1t has got the
head and beak of bird of paradise among
its trimmings. ooh, we can't buy that,
with the head of poor little bird upon it,
they say. And then they turn around and
buy q hat with pair of wings or birds
back or breast on it. Just rs If bird
might not just as well lose his head as his
tail or back or breast. But there's never
any reason in any OF these crazes. These
Audubon women won't buy hat not trim
med with feathers, but they insist that they
shall have nothing clse-no claws, beaks,
or heads"
This miiliner said that women are very
economical. They compare favorably with
the men in this respect. They may pay
1875 dollars for o bonnet, but they insist ON
getting the worth Of their money. "Give
a man 800 and a women $780," said she,
land see what each will do. The woman
will bring home lot of things. The man
will smoke up cigars, drink wine, and gel
up dinner for his friends. He will have
nothing left but headache for his money"
Whether this comparison be true or not,
recent researches into the fashions adopted
oy the ladies' have revealed the fact that II
takes an enormous amount of money to
satisfy woman of fashion. 1t has been said
that bonnets come as high as $40, sealskin
sacques are bought every day for $500 or
5000, and coats Of Russian cable are worn
by ladies whose husbands paid 1900 foi
them. The tailor-made cloth walking suits
average 800 in cost and only form one in
the series of four dresses needed for lady'i
daily changes. Her afternoon home dress
is likely to cost $75 or 800, her evening
dress, if in the height of fashion, will cost
$400 to $500, and she needs 1926 wrapper
to wear at her toilet before breakfast and q
wrapper worth 1886 to $50 to wear at break
fast. The Broadway shopping establish
ments now keep on hand silk underclothing
at $35 suit, cbemises at $50, skirts at $50
to $50, drawers at $35 to $50, stockings OF
Sl2 pair, and corsets.
" II Coal-oii Johnny wese to come to life
again aud try to throw fortune away, he
could not spend one half 80 much IN dress. "
said q storekeeper the other day, as it is
deemed necessary for o rich women to spend
If she wants to keep up to the standard set
by other rich women"